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Author	Prashad, Vijay.
Title	The karma of Brown folk / Vijay Prashad.
OCLC	42652549
ISBN	0816634386 (hc ; alk. paper)
	9780816634385 (hc ; alk. paper)
	0816634394 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	9780816634392 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	0816634386
	9780081663486
	008166348X
Publisher	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2000]
	�2000
Description	xv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	South Asian Americans -- Race identity.
	South Asian Americans -- Social conditions.
	East Indian Americans -- Race identity.
	East Indian Americans -- Social conditions.
	Racism -- United States.
Other Subject heading/s	Am�ricains d'origine sud-asiatique (CaQQLa)201-0357372 -- Identit� ethnique. (CaQQLa)201-0373815
	Am�ricains d'origine sud-asiatique (CaQQLa)201-0357372 -- Conditions sociales. (CaQQLa)201-0377410
	Am�ricains d'origine indienne (CaQQLa)201-0074060 -- Identit� ethnique. (CaQQLa)201-0373815
	Am�ricains d'origine indienne (CaQQLa)201-0074060 -- Conditions sociales. (CaQQLa)201-0377410
	Racisme (CaQQLa)201-0001691 -- �tats-Unis. (CaQQLa)201-0407727
	East Indian Americans -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst00901048
	East Indian Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00901050
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
	South Asian Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01983687
	Am�ricains d'origine asiatique -- Identit� collective.
	Am�ricains d'origine asiatique -- Conditions sociales.
	Am�ricains d'origine indienne (de l'Inde) -- Identit� collective.
	Am�ricains d'origine indienne (de l'Inde) -- Conditions sociales.
	Indischer Einwanderer.
LC Subject heading/s	United States -- Race relations.
Other Subject heading/s	United States -- Race relations.
	Indischer Einwanderer. (DE-588)4344449-0
	�tats-Unis -- Relations raciales. (CaQQLa)201-0068873
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	USA. (DE-588)4078704-7
	�tats-Unis -- Relations interethniques.
	USA.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Karma sutra: the forethought -- Of India -- Of the mysterious East -- Of the oriental menagerie -- Of sly Babas and other gurus -- Of the origin of Desis and some principles of state selection -- Of a Girmit consciousness -- Of authentic cultural lives -- Of Yankee Hindutva -- Of antiblack racism -- Of solidarity and other desires.
Review	""How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W.E.B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. A hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians "How does it feel to be a solution?" In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced by the members of a "model minority," one, he claims, that is consistently deployed as "a weapon in the war against black America."" "On a vast canvas, The Karma of Brown Folk attacks the two pillars of the "model minority" image, that South Asians are both inherently successful and pliant, and analyzes the ways in which U.S. immigration policy and American Orientalism have perpetuated these stereotypes. Prashad challenges the arguments made by Dinesh D'Souza, who heralds South Asian success in the United States, and questions the quiet accommodation to racism made by many South Asians. A look at Deepak Chopra and others who Prashad terms "Godmen" shows us how some South Asians exploit the stereotype of inherent spirituality, much to the chagrin of other South Asians. Tracing the long engagement of American culture with South Asia, Prashad illustrates India's effect on thinkers like Cotton Mather and Henry David Thoreau, Ravi Shankar's influence on John Coltrane, and such essential issues as race versus caste and the connection between antiracism activism and anticolonial resistance."--Jacket.

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